# Commission Regulation (EC) No 1653/2004 of 21 September 2004 on a standard financial regulation for the executive agencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes, Article 20

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The budget shall be drawn up and implemented and the accounts presented in compliance with the principle of transparency.
The budget and amending budgets, as finally adopted, shall be transmitted for information to the budgetary authority, the Court of Auditors and the Commission and published on the Internet site of the agency concerned. A summary of the budgets and amending budgets shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union within three months of their adoption.
The summary shall show the five main revenue and the five main expenditure budget lines, the establishment plan and an estimate of the number of contract staff, expressed in full-time equivalents for which appropriations are budgeted, and seconded national experts. It shall also indicate the figures for the previous year.
The agency shall make available on its Internet site information on the beneficiaries of funds deriving from its budget, including experts contracted pursuant to Article 50b. The publication shall be easily accessible, transparent and comprehensive. This information shall be made available with due observance of the requirements of confidentiality, in particular the protection of personal data as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data and of the requirements of security.
Where information is published only in anonymous form, the agency shall, upon request, provide information on the beneficiaries concerned to the European Parliament in an appropriate manner.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1653/article/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1653/article-20
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